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But does it work in practice? It doesn't seem to. PageRank is mostly a marketing tool. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/hits-on-the-web-how

by ssn 10y ago

But does it work in practice? It doesn't seem to. PageRank is mostly a marketing tool. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/hits-on-the-web-how-does-it-compare/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/hits-on... "The fact that in-degree features outperform PageRank under all measures is quite surprising. A possible explanation is that link-spammers have been targeting the published PageRank algorithm for many years, and that this has led to anomalies in the web graph that affect PageRank."

srean 10y ago
Well, if you are looking for a measure that is the easiest to game, abuse and spam, you cant go wrong with your pagerank killer: in-degree. It works less well than it used to, but its never used in isolation. Used in isolation its a pretty good porn detector.